Pricing and Costing Manager

**Join the largest independent, family-owned National rigid packaging supplier in Australia**:

- ** A unique, autonomous senior strategic role you can mould into your own**:

- ** Work from home options available**

**A fantastic opportunity to influence at a National leave and overall contribute to our exciting and ongoing growth strategy.**

**Partner With Us & Grow**

Partner With Us & Grow is our purpose, our brand statement, and is the heart and soul of why we do what we do. We are dedicated to creating an environment that allows our people to thrive. Wherever they may be on their work journey (just starting out, progressing, or chasing their next adventure) this means supporting personal and professional development within the business; providing opportunities to diversify skill set; and obtaining promotions from within. Our commitment to our people is one of a nurturing growth partnership aimed at providing the highest level of career satisfaction.

**About The Role**

The position is based at our Milperra Corporate head office and supports a National 7 branch network across Australia.

The overall objective of this position is to manage the analysis of pricing, grow sales revenue, reduce costs, and optimise ROI through the identification of risks and opportunities. Leading strategic analysis through the provision of insight into customer pricing and margin maximisation will be critical to ensuring the business builds on its decision-making capability. This position will work collaboratively with multiple departments including Purchasing, Business Development, Logistics, Sales and Finance teams.

**Key accountabilities**:

- Manage the entire pricing model and price increase notification system across a vast product range and extensive and varied sourcing and supply scenarios
- Review pricing efficacy, adjusting as required to grow sales and retain desired margin
- Research and consolidate customer feedback and market price expectations benchmarked against set company pricing and costing model
- Conduct analysis of inventory performance reviewed against price point and market, making recommendations to increase sales revenue
- Update and analyse master forward orders, identifying and rectifying instances of expired orders or incorrect pricing, in collaboration with the national sales teams
- Update system data, contract pricing and disseminate associated information
- Analyse and check freight pricing is correctly costed and recovered
- Perform sanity checks on costs, reviewing and wholistically tracking true COGs against the accuracy of the sell price; whilst, implementing sell price adjustments on an ongoing basis
- Maintain data integrity (obsolete and inaccurate pricing, product code set-up and rationalisation)
- Review slow moving inventory and develop remedial action plans in collaboration with the Business Development Unit and branches to optimise ROI
- Daily review of margin report against sell price, implementing corrective action to ensure business sustainability
- Identification of anomalies in pricing structure and engage in collective problem solving with branch managers to ensure profitable outcomes
- Analysis and interpretation of sales trends from multiple sources
- Profitability analysis, and reporting on performance (by product, customer, industry, tier, region/area etc.)
- Check, validate and challenge price increases from suppliers, ensuring adjustments and justifications are in line with market trends to prevent erosion of sales
- Participate in supplier tender negotiations
- Participate in special pricing-related projects

**About You**

You will have had exposure to pricing, costings, margins and analysis, and sales profitability, together with:

- Superior analytical and interpretative skills within an import distribution business; as well as, an understanding of supply chain costing models
- Ability to identify and implement cost saving initiatives
- Advanced Excel capability
- Advanced SAP capability or equivalent ERP exposure
- Effective communication skills (written & verbal)
- Strong analytical skills, commercial astuteness and attention to detail
- Financial modelling on a feasibility study including what-if analysis

**About Us**

Plasdene Glass-Pak is now the largest independent, family and Australian-owned Packaging Distribution Business in Australia. We supply glass and plastic bottles, jars, containers, closures, cartons, dividers, cans, flexible and bulk packaging to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, health care, wine, oil, spirit, industrial, agricultural, pet care, personal care and cosmetic sectors from seven Packaging Plaza Showrooms and Distribution Centres across the Nation.

If you are seeking a fantastic opportunity to join an industry leader, believe in the importance of delivering exceptional customer service and are able to motivate and inspire a great team, then we would love to hear from you

**No Recruitment Agencies, please.